In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for 10 recently announced albums and EPs from across the alternative music world.
Cancer Bats – Give Me Dirt
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Cancer Bats will release new album Give Me Dirt on August 7 through Bat Skull/Marshall Records.
The band has teamed up with Marshall Records for the release and said: “We are beyond excited to be joining the Marshall Records Roster! From the amps that helped define the sound of our favourite bands, to their support of independent venues and their absolute punk rock approach to everything they do, we feel like this is the perfect home for Cancer Bats! Can’t wait to work with them on our new album and many more to come!”
Marshall’s Steve Tannett, director of platforms, said: “We are so chuffed to have the legendary Cancer Bats join the Marshall Records roster in our 10th year, which coincides nicely with the band’s 20th year.
“The new studio album Give Me Dirt is testament to a band built on solid rock foundations, and we look forward to a brilliant release and lots of incredible shows – just how we like it!”
Tracklist:
World Wild Fire Death Race (Feat. Nate Newton)
Stay Stuck
Don’t Trip
Bright Eyes Of Gold (Feat. Chris Creswell)
Give Me Dirt
Long Tooth (Feat. Brooklyn Doran)
Speed Wizard
Ocean Crash
Positive Grid
Prognosis
Fool Like You (Feat. Efrem Schulz)
The Rolling Stones – Foreign Tongues
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The Rolling Stones will release new album Foreign Tongues on July 10 through Polydor/Universal Music.
The band shared insights into the recording process. Mick Jagger said: “I love doing these recording sessions in London at Metropolis. It was a very intense few weeks recording Foreign Tongues. We had 14 great tracks and we went as fast as we could. I like the room there as it’s not too big so you can feel the passion in the room from everyone.”
Keith Richards added: “The Foreign Tongues album has a continuity from Hackney Diamonds and it was great to be working in London again, and to have that London vibe around us. It was a month of concentrated punch. To me, it’s all about the enjoyment of it. I’m blessed to be able to do this and long may it last.”
Ronnie Wood said: “The atmosphere in the room was so creative, and the whole band was on top form throughout the whole process. Very often we nailed it on the first take. I hope everyone loves it.”
REZN – Cycles in the Infinite Dream
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REZN will release new album Cycles in the Infinite Dream on July 24 through Sargent House.
“We moved towards the dream and subconscious state as a lyrical concept and melodic theme,” the band explains.
“The pseudo-waking state is a reflection of a second existence—something that you can flee to or be imprisoned by.”
Tracklist:
Rites of Passage
Transient
Aerial Birth
Devotion
The Vessel
Escher
Primal Thread
Terra Preta
Flotsam And Jetsam – Rats in the Temple
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Flotsam And Jetsam will release new album Rats in the Temple on August 28 through Napalm Records.
Frontman Eric A.K. Knutson said: “This record is a BEAST, truly our best effort to date!! Do yourself a favor. Dim the lights, grab a drink, put the headphones on, and crank this up. You will not be sorry you did!!!“
Tracklist:
Harvesting the Hate
Damnation
Absolution
Blame the Knife
Rats in the Temple
The Ghost behind my Door
First on the Spike
The Edge of Nowhere
Last Rites
A Taste for War
Her Blood your Pain
Anthem for the Broken
Not Going down that Way
Xandria – Eclipse
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Xandria will release new album Eclipse on August 7 through Napalm Records.
Tracklist:
Syzygy
Eclipse
Colours
The Shannon’s Home
The Grand Delusion
Wave of Tanis
Northstar
Masquerade
The Last Generation
The Poetry of the Real World
Lore
Walkways – A Reminder
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Walkways will release new album A Reminder on August 28 through Wild Thing Records.
Vocalist Ran Yerushalmi said: “I wish I had this album to listen to back when I was extremely troubled and had no-one to hold on to.”
Tracklist:
A Reminder
A F**k You, A Thank You
A Devil’s Mist (Fire)
A Virus. Prove Me Wrong
Abiding Stress to Unstress
Again & Again & Again
Alone Together
All For You
A Kiss on the Forehead
A Programmed Mistake
Autonomic Wrath
Another Relapse, Another Release
A Smile (Soul Deep)
The Iron Roses – Molotov Nights
The Iron Roses will release new album Molotov Nights on August 6.
Becky Fontaine said: “Molotov Nights is a collection of anthems we poured every bit of our rage and frustration into, taking care to swaddle it in defiant joy and affirming hope. When we wrote this album, we set out to create protest punk that still honored autonomy, humanity, and compassion, and as we moved through our collective grief while bearing witness to new horrors of the world in our news feed every single day, an undeniable frenzy took over.
“What came together over the last two years of writing are 10 songs that take the backbone of our sound and make space for more rage, more vulnerability, more defiance, more romancing of the human experience, and more celebration of self.
“Molotov Nights is a love letter we tucked into the pockets of our community as we link arms and push forward in our resistance — one that we hope will become lovingly worn at the edges from being pulled out to read, re-read, and chant along to on the darkest of nights when hope feels impossible.”
Tracklist:
Dead Eyes
Body Count
Fascist Lullabies
All American
The Good News
To the Last
Molotov Nights
Look Away
Breathing Static
Rise Up Phoenix
Movements – Happier Now
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Movements will release new album Happier Now on September 4 through Fearless Records.
“I think at first we weren’t really sure what the record was going to be,” vocalist Patrick Miranda said.
“We all had a general idea: We wanted it to bring in the early elements of our sound and blend it with the newer material like [2023’s] RUCKUS! and mesh both of those sounds.
“‘Dissolve Me,’ the first track we wrote for this record, set a precedent for our writing process.
“Nailing the lead single for an album cycle on the first try is a significant accomplishment. It felt like the perfect culmination of energy, emotion, and growth for us sonically. Like much of the record, this song is introspective, and it’s a sort of confession about my own social behaviors and the challenges I face in navigating even the smallest or most ‘normal’ everyday interactions. Those feelings tend to accumulate and worsen over time, to the point where they can become debilitating. Sometimes it feels like the only remedy would be to slam my head into a wall.“
Tracklist:
Pulse
Dissolve Me
Everything Is Fine
Happier Now
Flowerbed
Back in My Ways
Spellbound
Ill at Ease
Live by the Sword
Everyone I’ve Ever Been
Fragile Hands
Separate
Really Good Time – Affirmations
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Really Good Time will release debut album Affirmations on August 7.
The band said: “‘Affirmations’ is a collection of songs about turning inwards when this fresh hell becomes too much to process. Why not fixate on some petty little anxiety instead? You’ll probably… feel better?
“We find ourselves at a curious moment, where our techno-fascist god-kings are taking any opportunity to decry empathy and introspection as the root of all evil, while their pathetic devotees and mouthpieces try to boil every human interaction down to something transactional.
“It’s easy to look at the horrors unfolding around the world right now and just switch off, give in to your own powerlessness and say ‘fuck it, it’s all fucked anyway’. The culture and the attention economy that suckles it almost seems to demand this from us.
“That feeling must be spat out and rejected.
“Lurching from one panic attack to the next, our album ultimately seeks a rejection of navel-gazing nihilism – by recognising how easy it is to slip into, then pointing at it and laughing; whether that’s trying to escape the indignity of other human bodies on a crowded Dublin bus by glueing your eyes to a phone, or a stream-of-consciousness existential breakdown about finding Bob Dylan on an episode of Pawn Stars.
“Go climb a tree, scream into a pillow, and tell your friends you love them.”
Million Moons – You Be Good, I Love You
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Million Moons will release new album You Be Good, I Love You on June 26 through Ripcord Records, Dunk! Records, A Thousand Arms Music, and AnGoal Music.
Edward Thompson said: “We had such a great experience working with Lewis on our last record, coming back to him for album three was a bit of a no brainer. He knows how to get the best out of us, and we always have such a nice time hanging out together.
“For this record, we chose a subject that’s very close to my heart, as I work in marine conservation. The world is full of so many amazing creatures, and it’s truly sad what has happened to their habitats as a result of human activity.”
Tracklist:
Titan of the Deep
Last Days Together
Black Sun Rising
Thundering Footsteps
Secret Histories
Memories of a Past Life
Echoes in the Abyss
Floating for Eternity
